Improvement in fishing-reels



L. T. DIGK3ON. Fishing-Reel.

N0. 2l4,495. Patented April 22,1879.

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N. PETERS, PHOYO-LITHDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

L. TAYLOR DIOKSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FlSHlNG-REELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,495, dated April 22, 1879; application filed March 13, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Belt known that I, L. TAYLOR DICKSON, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Fishing-Reels, of which invention the following is a specification.

The objects of the said invention are, first, to be enabled to give the spool-drum a rapid rotary motion bya comparatively small movement of the crank; second, to avoid friction between the drum and the driving-shaft; third, to have the exterior of the reel free from all projections, which might entangle the fishing-line.

The first of theseobjects is effected by multiplying-gearing; the second, by making the driving-shaft of less diameter than the diame-' ter of the drnm,-and giving said shaft bearings that form no part of the spool; and the third by constructing the crank in the form of a cap, which forms a part of the driving-gears, and at the same time covers in the other driving mechanism, all as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1. is a side elevation of the reel; Fig. 2, a front elevation; Fig. 3, a section on the line as as of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a diametrical section on the line y y of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a sectional elevation of the click end of the reel.

a and to represent the frame-plates I) and b, the spool-heads 5 c, the spool-drum; d, the drivin g-shaft, which passes through the spool-drum and is free from contact with it, having bearings at one end in a bracket, 6, Figs. 3 and 4, and at its other end in the frame-plate a at f, Fig. 4. g, Figs. 3 and 4, is a gear-wheel rigidly attached. to the end of the spool-drum c.

h is anintermediate gear-wheel, having a bear-- ing in the frame-plate a. US a plate rigidly attached to the shaft d. It is constructed so as to form at its periphery, inside, the internal gear, j, which engages the gear h. The plate t'covers 1'11 the described gearing and forms Witnesses:

THos. A. BURTT, J NO. A. BELL. 

